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| Size | 11.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 4200 items) |
| Abstract | The collection includes letters, financial and legal papers, genealogical papers, and other materials pertaining to William Alexander Hoke, a white lawyer, legislator, and chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, of Lincolnton, Lincoln County, N.C.; members of the related Alexander, Henderson, McBee, and Wilson families; and people enslaved by these families. Topics include the buying and selling of enslaved people; human trafficking, then called "hiring out"; abolitionism; reminiscences about Julia, a nurse formerly enslaved by the family; Reconstruction era terrorism, including references to activities of the Ku Klux Klan; and Black membership at St. Luke's Church in Lincolnton, N.C. Other topics include 19th-century North Carolina politics; an antebellum gold mining operation; John Franklin Hoke's involvement in the Mexican-American War; the American Civil War, including the homefront and service of family members and others in the Confederate army and navy and the North Carolina State Troops, Company B, 1st Regiment Artillery; the legal career of William Alexander Hoke; the brief theatrical career of Laura Alexander in the 1870s; and Sallie Badger Hoke's travels to Europe and Egypt in the 1880s. Also included are recipes and cures, North Carolina land records dating back to the 1750s, and legal documents and financial items relating to family members. Correspondents include North Carolina Governor David L. Swain; Frances Christine Fisher Tiernan, the novelist who wrote as Christian Reid; Zebulon Vance; and Josephus Daniels. |
| Creator | Hoke, William Alexander, 1851-1925. |
| Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
| Language | English |
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Biographical Information
William Alexander Hoke, a white lawyer, legislator and chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, was born 25 October 1851 in Lincolnton, N.C. His father, John Franklin Hoke (1821-1888), fought in the Mexican-American War, served as adjutant general of North Carolina by appointment of Governor John Ellis in 1861, and later, as a colonel, commanded the Thirteenth and, subsequently, Twenty-third North Carolina regiments of the Confederate Army. William Alexander Hoke's mother was Catherine Wilson Alexander Hoke (d. 1857), and he had two sisters, Nancy Childs Hoke (1856-1893) and Sallie Badger Hoke (d. 1914). Hoke married Mary (Mamie) McBee (d. 1920) of Lincolnton, and with her had one child Mary.
Hoke was educated at the Lincolnton Male Academy and later studied law under North Carolina Chief Justice Richmond M. Pearson. He practiced law for eight years in Shelby, N.C., then returned to Lincolnton and joined his father in a law partnership, which lasted until John Franklin Hoke's death in 1888. A lifelong Democrat, Alex Hoke, as he was known, represented Lincoln County in the state legislature in 1889 and was elected a state Superior Court judge the following year. He remained a trial judge until 1904 when he was elected an associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. Reelected in 1912 and 1920, he was appointed chief justice on 2 June 1924, succeeding Walter Clark upon his death. Hoke was elected chief justice in November 1924, but resigned on 16 March 1925 because of poor health. He held the status of an emergency judge until his death on 13 September 1925.
The judicial opinions of Justice Hoke appear in 53 volumes of the Supreme Court Reports (#137-#189 inclusive) and deal with a wide range of subjects. In Hicks v. Manufacturing Co. (138 N.C), Hoke wrote the decision that settled questions of assumption of risk and contributory negligence as affected by the negligence of an employer. He also wrote significant decisions concerning other matters of civil law, such as contracts, wills, conveyances, notes, and various suits in equity.
(Adapted from the biographical note by Walser H. Allen Jr. in the Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, Volume III, 1988.)
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The William Alexander Hoke Papers include letters, financial and legal papers, genealogical papers, and other materials pertaining to William Alexander Hoke, a white lawyer, legislator, and chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, of Lincolnton, Lincoln County, N.C.; members of the related Alexander, Henderson, McBee, and Wilson families; and the people enslaved by these families. Topics include the buying and selling of enslaved people; human trafficking, then called "hiring out"; abolitionism; reminiscences about Julia, a nurse formerly enslaved by the family; Reconstruction era terrorism, including references to activities of the Ku Klux Klan; and Black membership at St. Luke's Church in Lincolnton, N.C. Other topics include 19th-century North Carolina politics; an antebellum gold mining operation; John Franklin Hoke's involvement in the Mexican-American War; the American Civil War, including the homefront and service of family members and others in the Confederate army and navy and the North Carolina State Troops, Company B, 1st Regiment Artillery; the legal career of William Alexander Hoke; the brief theatrical career of Laura Alexander in the 1870s; and Sallie Badger Hoke's travels to Europe and Egypt in the 1880s. Also included are recipes and cures, North Carolina land records dating back to the 1750s, and legal documents and financial items relating to family members. Correspondents include North Carolina Governor David L. Swain; Frances Christine Fisher Tiernan, the novelist who wrote as Christian Reid; Zebulon Vance; and Josephus Daniels.
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Series 1. Correspondence and Related Items, 1791-1925.
Arrangement: chronological.
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Subseries 1.1. Correspondence, 1791-1838.
Chiefly family correspondence and some business letters. Most of the family letters are those of Elizabeth Henderson Alexander and her brothers, Leonard Henderson (North Carolina Supreme Court chief justice, 1829-1833) and Archibald Henderson (member of Congress, 1799-1803). Business correspondence mainly consists of letters between J. H. Bissell and Kemp P. Willis.
| Folder 1 |
Correspondence, 1790s |
| Folder 2 |
Correspondence, 1800-1835 |
| Folder 3 |
Correspondence, 1836-1838 |
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Subseries 1.2. Correspondence, 1840-1869.
Topics include the forced removal of Cherokees from North Carolina, politics, the Mexican-American War, the American Civil War, and family matters. Correspondence primarily documents John Franklin Hoke and his activities, although there are also numerous items relating to the Alexander family, especially Elvira Catherine Wilson Alexander, Joseph Wilson Alexander, William Lee Alexander, Laura Alexander, and Mary Josephine (Coosa) Wilson. Correspondents who were not family members include Milledge Luke Bonham, Charles Fisher, Maxcy Gregg, Joseph Lane, Levi Silliman Ives, and Eleanor Swain, wife of North Carolina Governor David L. Swain.
Of note are John Franklin Hoke's efforts to obtain a federal contract to handle the forced removal of Cherokee from North Carolina (28 April, 4 May, 6 May, 19 May, 3 September, and 25 November 1857). Many letters relate to political matters of the period including banking issues (November 1840), President John Tyler's use of the veto (22 September 1841), local party politics (December 1841, 10 February 1842, 25 October 1852, 8 April and 6 July 1855), the southern convention movement (21 August and 25 September 1850, 7 March 1851), the Kansas-Nebraska Act (8 July 1854), the raid on Harper's Ferry (18 November 1859), and the visit of Hungarian nationalist Louis Kossuth to the United States (18 November 1852). Mexican-American War materials document John Franklin Hoke's military service (1847), including charges of cowardice; recruits in Lincolnton, N.C., and St. Louis, Mo.; a post war audit of provisions (e.g., 27 January and 23 February 1850, 17 January and 17 March 1851); and an army commission (25 February 1851). There are several letters relating to Levi Silliman Ives, North Carolina's antebellum Episcopal bishop whose conversion to Roman Catholicism stirred great controversy in the state (3 June 1850, 23 February 1852, 9 May 1854, and several undated items from the 1850s).
American Civil War materials document John Franklin F. Hoke's service as North Carolina adjutant general (1861), including communications with North Carolina Governor John Ellis (June 1861) and receipts for weapons. He later served as colonel in the 13th and 23rd North Carolina regiments. Most of the American Civil War material, however, concern Joseph Wilson Alexander and William Lee Alexander, both of whom served in the Confederate military. The letters of Joseph Wilson Alexander, a United States Navy officer circa 1857-1861, recount his early anticipation of the war (30 November 1860), his later experiences as a prisoner of war in New England (13 September 1863, December 1863, 7 August 1864, and file of undated 1861-1865), and his return to active duty following a prisoner exchange (9 November 1864). There is also a letter from C. W. Read to Alexander, trying to obtain a wagon so that he and a group of Confederates could evade General Sherman and the Union Army and make it to the Trans-Mississippi West (20 February 1865). Occasional letters throughout the war touch on William Lee Alexander's activities with the Confederate Army in Texas, where he had moved before the war to serve as president of the University of Nacogdoches (25 October and 20 December 1859, and 9 February 1860). Also included here is a notebook belonging to H. T. Guion with records of the North Carolina State Troops, Company B, 1st Regiment Artillery (V-345/2).
| Folder 4 |
Correspondence, 1840-1846Topics include: banking issues, November 1840; President John Tyler's use of the veto, 22 September 1841; local party politics, December 1841, 10 February 1842. |
| Folder 5 |
Correspondence, 1847-1849In 1847, several items deal with John Franklin Hoke's military service during the Mexican-American War, including lists of recruits in Lincolnton, N.C., and St. Louis, Mo., as well as letters denying charges of cowardice against him. |
| Folder 6 |
Correspondence, 1850-1853Letters relating to the southern convention movement are dated 21 August and 25 September 1850, 7 March 1851. After the war, John Franklin Hoke corresponded with United States Treasury Department auditors about army provisions for which he had been responsible as a military officer (27 January and 23 February 1850, 17 January and 17 March 1851). At the same time, Hoke also sought an army commission for which he was endorsed by M. L. Bonham, who had been Hoke's superior officer in Mexico and later represented South Carolina in Congress (25 February 1851). Letters in this folder relating to Levi Silliman Ives, North Carolina's antebellum Episcopal bishop whose conversion to Roman Catholicism stirred great controversy in the state, are dated 3 June 1850 and 23 February 1852. Catherine Wilson Alexander Hoke mentioned the visit of Hungarian nationalist Louis Kossuth to the United States and noted that her sister "talks of little else" (18 November 1852). |
| Folder 7 |
Correspondence, 1854-1859Includes correspondence related to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, 8 July 1854; and the raid on Harper's Ferry, 18 November 1859. Several letters in 1857 relate to the forced removal of Cherokees from North Carolina, specifically with John Franklin Hoke's efforts to obtain a federal contract to handle the removal. See 28 April, 4 May, 6 May, 19 May, 3 September, and 25 November 1857. Other topics: local party politics, 25 October 1852, 8 April and 6 July 1855. A letter in this folder relating to Levi Silliman Ives, North Carolina's antebellum Episcopal bishop whose conversion to Roman Catholicism stirred great controversy in the state, is dated 9 May 1854. There are also several related undated items from the 1850s. Letters in this folder relating to William Lee Alexander presidency at the University of Nacogdoches are dated 25 October and 20 December 1859. |
| Folder 8 |
Correspondence, 1860Joseph Wilson Alexander predicted trouble when he heard of Lincoln's 1860 election while in port at Gibraltar and resigned his commission and joined the Confederate Navy. See 30 November 1860. A letter in this folder relating to William Lee Alexander presidency at the University of Nacogdoches is dated 9 February 1860. |
| Oversize Volume SV-345/1 |
1857-1860Volume is Joseph Wilson Alexander's account of his voyage on the U.S.S. Germantown from Norfolk, Va., to various Asian ports, 1857-1860. |
Folder 9-10
Folder 9Folder 10 |
Correspondence, 1861John Franklin Hoke's service as North Carolina adjutant general is documented in 1861 items that include communications with North Carolina Governor John Ellis (especially in June) and receipts for weapons. He later served as colonel in the 13th and 23rd North Carolina regiments. Most of the Civil War material, however, concerns the Alexander family. Joseph Wilson Alexander, a United States Navy officer circa 1857-1861, and his brother, William Lee Alexander, both served in the Confederate military. |
| Folder 11 |
Correspondence, 1862-1863Letters recount Joseph Wilson Alexander's experiences as a prisoner of war in New England (13 September 1863, December 1863). See also file of undated 1861-1865. |
| Folder 12 |
Correspondence, 1864-1866Letters recount Joseph Wilson Alexander's experiences as a prisoner of war in New England (7 August 1864) and his return to active duty following a prisoner exchange (9 November 1864). See also file of undated 1861-1865. As the war came to a close, C. W. Read tried to obtain a wagon from Joseph Wilson Alexander so that he and a group of Confederates could evade Sherman and make it to the Trans-Mississippi West (20 February 1865). |
| Folder 12a |
Correspondence, 1861-1865Some letters recount Joseph Wilson Alexander's experiences as a prisoner of war in New England. |
| Folder 12b |
Notebook with records of the North Carolina State Troops, Company B, 1st Regiment Artillery, 1864-1865 (V-345/2)Notebook belonging to H. T. Guion. Includes lists of recruits, copies of orders, and notes on activities. The earliest entries in the notebook begin on page 16; pages 5-15, which cover July 1864-February 1865, are a continuation from the back of the notebook. |
| Folder 13 |
Correspondence, 1867-1869 |
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Subseries 1.3. Correspondence, 1870-1925.
Topics include Reconstruction terrorism (23 January 1871; also see 17 October and 20 December 1870), the Ku Klux Klan (6 April 1872 and 18 June 1874), William Alexander Hoke's law practice, his campaign for judge (1890), his possible candidacy for the state Supreme Court and the United States Senate (1902), his election to the state's high court (1904), and his subsequent re-elections. During this period, A. G. Smith wrote to William Alexander Hoke from Alabama that "all our boys, nearly" had gone to Texas or Mexico to avoid "the d--n U.S. marshals" (14 April 1872). John Franklin Hoke's legal practice is also documented until his death in 1888. Correspondents not in William Alexander Hoke's immediate family include Charles Aycock, Victor C. Barringer, Locke Craig, Josephus Daniels, George Davis (Confederate attorney general), Robert F. Hoke, and Hoke Smith.
Other correspondence primarily relates to Hoke and Alexander family members. Many of the items are family letters to and from William Alexander Hoke, his wife, Mary McBee (Mamie) Hoke (d. 1920), and his two sisters, Sallie Badger Hoke (d. 1914) and Nancy Childs (Nannie) Hoke (d. 1893). Materials relating to Sallie Badger Hoke's trip to Europe and Egypt, 1888-1889, are also included. Much family correspondence comes from the period when Sallie Badger Hoke worked for a New Jersey judge, circa 1899-1913. Nancy Childs Hoke carried on a correspondence with Frances Christine Fisher Tiernan (January-April 1880), the novelist who wrote as Christian Reid, and with Florence and Zebulon Vance (20 October 1889, 7 and 17 June 1891, and 8 November 1892).
Laura Alexander's brief theatrical career in New York, which was cut short by her sudden death in 1874, is the subject of several letters in the early 1870s.
| Folder 14 |
Correspondence, 1870-1871Includes letters regarding Reconstruction era abuse of individuals by "disloyal organizations" in Lincoln County, N.C. (23 January 1871; also see 17 October and 20 December 1870). |
| Folder 14a |
Notebook, 1871 (V-345/3)Five-page notebook written in German and datelined "Nov. Dec. 2, 1871" in Catonsville, Md. |
| Folder 15 |
Correspondence, 1872-1873A letter dated 6 April 1872 discusses the activities of the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina. During this period, A. G. Smith wrote to William Alexander Hoke from Alabama that "all our boys, nearly" had gone to Texas or Mexico to avoid "the d--n U.S. marshals" (14 April 1872). |
| Folder 16 |
Correspondence, 1874A letter dated 18 June 1874 discusses the activities of the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina. |
| Folder 17 |
Correspondence, 1875 |
| Folder 18 |
Correspondence, 1876 |
| Folder 19 |
Correspondence, 1877 |
| Folder 20 |
Correspondence, 1878 |
| Folder 21 |
Correspondence, 1879 |
| Folder 21a |
Notes on expenses, 1873-1879 (V-345/4) |
| Folder 21b |
Commodities with prices on 14 January and 24 April 1879 (V-345/5) |
| Folder 22 |
Correspondence, 1870s undated |
Folder 23-24
Folder 23Folder 24 |
Correspondence, 1880Nancy Childs Hoke carried on a correspondence with Frances Christine Fisher Tiernan, the novelist who wrote as Christian Reid (e.g., January-April 1880). |
| Folder 25 |
Correspondence, 1881 |
Folder 26-27
Folder 26Folder 27 |
Correspondence, 1882 |
| Folder 28 |
Correspondence, 1883 |
| Folder 29 |
Correspondence, 1884 |
| Folder 30 |
Correspondence, 1885-1886 |
| Folder 31 |
Correspondence, 1887 |
Folder 32-37
Folder 32Folder 33Folder 34Folder 35Folder 36Folder 37 |
Correspondence, 1888 |
Folder 38-40
Folder 38Folder 39Folder 40 |
Correspondence, 1889Nancy Childs Hoke carried on a correspondence with Florence and Zebulon Vance (20 October 1889). |
| Folder 40a |
Notes on a speech about religion, 1889 (V-345/6)Apparently delivered by William Alexander Hoke while a member of the North Carolina legislature in 1889. |
| Folder 41 |
Correspondence, 1880s undated |
Folder 42-43
Folder 42Folder 43 |
Correspondence, 1890William Alexander Hoke's campaign for judge in 1890. |
| Folder 44 |
Correspondence, 1891-1892Nancy Childs Hoke carried on a correspondence with Florence and Zebulon Vance (7 and 17 June 1891, and 8 November 1892). |
| Folder 44a |
"Narrative of the Battle of Cowan's Ford ... and Narrative of the Battle of Kings Mountain," 28 March 1891 (V-345/7)Copy of a pamphlet concerning two Revolutionary War battles. Zebulon Vance sent William Alexander Hoke this pamphlet. |
Folder 45-48
Folder 45Folder 46Folder 47Folder 48 |
Correspondence, 1893 |
| Folder 49 |
Correspondence, 1894-1896 |
Folder 50-53
Folder 50Folder 51Folder 52Folder 53 |
Correspondence, 1897 |
Folder 54-58
Folder 54Folder 55Folder 56Folder 57Folder 58 |
Correspondence, 1898 |
Folder 59-64
Folder 59Folder 60Folder 61Folder 62Folder 63Folder 64 |
Correspondence, 1899 |
Folder 65-69
Folder 65Folder 66Folder 67Folder 68Folder 69 |
Correspondence, 1900 |
Folder 70-77
Folder 70Folder 71Folder 72Folder 73Folder 74Folder 75Folder 76Folder 77 |
Correspondence, 1901 |
Folder 78-84
Folder 78Folder 79Folder 80Folder 81Folder 82Folder 83Folder 84 |
Correspondence, 1902Topics include William Alexander Hoke's possible candidacy for the state Supreme Court and the United States Senate in 1902. |
Folder 85-89
Folder 85Folder 86Folder 87Folder 88Folder 89 |
Correspondence, 1903 |
Folder 90-99
Folder 90Folder 91Folder 92Folder 93Folder 94Folder 95Folder 96Folder 97Folder 98Folder 99 |
Correspondence, 1904Topics include William Alexander Hoke's election to the North Carolina Supreme Court in 1904. |
Folder 100-105
Folder 100Folder 101Folder 102Folder 103Folder 104Folder 105 |
Correspondence, 1905 |
Folder 106-108
Folder 106Folder 107Folder 108 |
Correspondence, 1906 |
Folder 109-112
Folder 109Folder 110Folder 111Folder 112 |
Correspondence, 1907 |
Folder 113-116
Folder 113Folder 114Folder 115Folder 116 |
Correspondence, 1908 |
Folder 117-119
Folder 117Folder 118Folder 119 |
Correspondence, 1909 |
| Folder 120 |
Correspondence, 1900-1909 undated |
| Folder 121 |
Correspondence, 1910 |
Folder 122-123
Folder 122Folder 123 |
Correspondence, 1911 |
| Folder 124 |
Correspondence, 1912 |
| Folder 125 |
Correspondence, 1913 |
Folder 126-132
Folder 126Folder 127Folder 128Folder 129Folder 130Folder 131Folder 132 |
Correspondence, 1914 |
| Folder 133 |
Correspondence, 1915-1919 |
| Folder 134 |
Correspondence, 1910s undated |
Folder 135-144
Folder 135Folder 136Folder 137Folder 138Folder 139Folder 140Folder 141Folder 142Folder 143Folder 144 |
Correspondence, 1920 |
| Folder 145 |
Correspondence, 1923-1924 |
Folder 146-147
Folder 146Folder 147 |
Correspondence, 1925 |
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Subseries 1.4. Undated Correspondence and Related Materials, circa 1840-1915.
Undated letters, arranged by correspondent. Most of the files are organized by recipient, though some are by the sender and are so designated.
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Series 2. Financial and Legal Papers, 1802-1924.
Arrangement: by type of material.
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Subseries 2.1. Bills of Sale for People Who Were Enslaved, Receipts, and Other Financial Papers,
1802-1915.
Arrangement: chronological
Bills of sale for people who were enslaved (1820s-1850s), receipts, and other financial materials of William Alexander Hoke and other members of his family. There is also an agreement to traffic enslaved peoplel, then called "hiring out," for the first quarter of 1865; tax receipts for a few scattered years (1863, 1894, 1902); bank deposit slips (1899, 1900, 1904); and bills and receipts from various stores.
| Folder 174 |
Financial papers, 1802, 1805 |
| Folder 175 |
Financial papers, 1823-1839Includes bills of sale for people who were enslaved. |
| Folder 176 |
Financial papers, 1840-1869Includes bills of sale and a human trafficking agreement, then called "hiring out," for people who were enslaved. |
| Folder 177 |
Financial papers, 1870-1875 |
| Folder 178 |
Financial papers, 1876-1879 |
| Folder 179 |
Financial papers, 1880-1889 |
| Folder 180 |
Financial papers, 1890-1899 |
| Folder 181 |
Financial papers, 1900-1904, 1915 |
| Folder 182 |
Financial papers, Undated |
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Subseries 2.2. Legal Papers, 1802-1924.
Arrangement: chronological
Notes, briefs, wills, subpoenas and other legal papers, most of which pertain to the legal career of John Franklin Hoke or, beginning in the 1870s, to that of William Alexander Hoke. Documents include John Franklin Hoke's bar admission signed by North Carolina Supreme Court members (16 June 1842), an affidavit of Mary Murphy Dickson in connection with a Revolutionary War pension (27 April 1846), and a copy of the will of Florence Vance (married to Zebulon Vance) (24 May 1891).
| Oversize Paper Folder OPF-345/1 |
Indenture, 21 June 1766 |
Indenture, 12 January 1767 |
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| Folder 183 |
Legal papers, 1802-1808 |
| Folder 184 |
Legal papers, 1827-1839 |
| Folder 185 |
Legal papers, 1842-1859Includes John Franklin Hoke's bar admission signed by North Carolina Supreme Court members (16 June 1842); an affidavit of Mary Murphy Dickson in connection with a Revolutionary War pension (27 April 1846). |
| Folder 186 |
Legal papers, 1860-1869 |
| Folder 187 |
Legal papers, 1870-1874 |
| Folder 188 |
Legal papers, 1875 |
| Folder 189 |
Legal notebook, circa 1870s (V-345/8)Includes William Alexander Hoke's notes on the "County Court lectures of Chief Justice Pearson" (circa 1871) and information on business accounts and notes on judgments in various cases from Hoke's early law practice. |
| Folder 190 |
Legal papers, 1876-1879 |
| Folder 191 |
Legal papers, 1880-1886 |
| Folder 192 |
Legal papers, 1887-1889 |
| Folder 193 |
Legal papers, 1890-1899Includes a copy of the will of Florence Vance (married to Zebulon Vance) (24 May 1891). |
| Folder 194 |
Legal papers, 1901-1911 |
| Folder 195 |
Legal briefs notebook, 1918-1921 (V-345/9)Hoke's brief notes on the judicial terms, Fall 1918-Spring 1921. |
| Folder 196 |
Legal briefs notebook, 1921-1924 (V-345/10)Hoke's brief notes on the judicial terms, Fall 1921-Fall 1924. |
| Folder 197 |
Legal papers, Undated |
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Subseries 2.3. Land Records, 1750-1911.
Arrangement: chronological
Deeds, indentures, surveys, rent agreements, and other materials relating to landholdings and land transactions in North Carolina, mostly in Lincoln and surrounding counties. Included are an 1821 town plot of Lincolnton and an 1829 list of taxable property for John Hoke (presumably the father of John Franklin Hoke).
| Folder 198 |
Land records, 1750-1778 |
| Folder 199 |
Land records, 1781-1786 |
| Oversize Paper Folder OPF-345/1 |
Land grant, 9 October 1783 |
| Folder 200 |
Land records, 1790-1798 |
| Folder 201 |
Land records, 1800-1809 |
| Folder 202 |
Land records, 1811-1818 |
| Folder 203 |
Land records, 1820-1839 |
| Folder 204 |
Land records, 1840-1859 |
| Folder 205 |
Land records, 1860-1869 |
| Folder 206 |
Land records, 1872-1874 |
| Folder 207 |
Land records, 1875-1887 |
| Folder 208 |
Land records, 1888-1889 |
| Folder 209 |
Land records, 1898-1911 |
| Folder 210 |
Land records, UndatedAlso includes one small notebook with extremely brief notes on financial matters and legal cases, 1824-1830 |
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Series 3. Writings and Speeches, circa 1870-1920.
Arrangement: by subject.
Speeches and writings of William Alexander Hoke and others on a variety of topics. Specific items of interest include notes on a lecture about the theories of Charles Darwin (folder 211), an eerie story set in Mexico after the United States victory there in the 1840s (folder 212), William Alexander Hoke's speech introducing William Howard Taft to a group in Raleigh sometime after Taft left the White House but before he assumed the chief justiceship, another Hoke speech introducing Franklin D. Roosevelt when he was assistant secretary of the Navy (folder 217), and Sallie Badger Hoke's arguments against women's suffrage (folder 222).
| Folder 211 |
Agriculture and natureIncludes notes on a lecture about the theories of Charles Darwin. |
| Folder 212 |
Art and literatureIncludes an eerie story set in Mexico after the United States victory there in the 1840s. |
| Folder 213 |
Civil War |
| Folder 214 |
Colonial Dames |
| Folder 215 |
Education |
| Folder 216 |
History and philosophy |
| Folder 217 |
Introductions of speakers by William Alexander HokeIncludes William Alexander Hoke's speech introducing William Howard Taft to a group in Raleigh sometime after Taft left the White House but before he assumed the chief justiceship, and another Hoke speech introducing Franklin D. Roosevelt when he was assistant secretary of the Navy. |
| Folder 218 |
Law and politics |
| Folder 219 |
Memorial tributes by William Alexander Hoke |
| Folder 220 |
Religion |
| Folder 221 |
United Daughters of the Confederacy |
| Folder 222 |
Women's suffrageIncludes Sallie Badger Hoke's arguments against women's suffrage. |
| Folder 223 |
Miscellaneous speeches |
| Folder 224 |
Miscellaneous writings |
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Series 4. Genealogical Materials, 1750-1911.
Arrangement: by family.
Correspondence, charts, and other materials relating to the genealogies of families associated with William Alexander Hoke. Although efforts have been made to organize folders by families represented, there is some unavoidable overlap among files. Below are listed the major families represented in each folder.
| Folder 225 |
Hoke |
| Folder 226 |
Alexander and Wilson |
| Folder 227 |
Sumner |
| Folder 228 |
Cansler (V-345/12) |
| Folder 229 |
Batchellor, Worth, Howland, and Coffin |
| Folder 230 |
Quickel, Hunt, and Duke |
| Folder 231 |
Williams, Eberard, and Meade |
| Folder 232 |
Other families |
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Series 5. Miscellaneous Volumes, circa 1753-1900.
Volumes that are either undated or are dated but cover multiple topics over several years.
| Folder 233 |
Notebook, circa 153-1754 (V-345/13)42 pages. Small notebook written in German. |
| Folder 234 |
Home cures, recipes, and household hints, circa 1842-1851 (V-345/14)72 pages. Arranged alphabetically, I-Y. For other recipes, see series 6. |
| Folder 235 |
Ledger for High Shoal Gold Mining Company and school notebook, 1848-1899 (V-345/15)135 pages. Ledger used for a variety of purposes. Most of the ledger (pages 4-84 and pages 122-131) is devoted to the records of the High Shoal Gold Mining Company (circa 1848-1859). Also included are various school assignments, including math (pages 93 and 134-135), French (pages 85-92), Shakespeare (pages 94-114), and English history (pages 115-119). |
| Folder 236 |
Notebook,, circa 1861 (V-345/16)29 pages. Notebook containing notes and essays on a variety of matters in no apparent order. Presumably it belonged to a member of the Alexander family. Topics include events of the American Revolution, the influence of abolitionists on a Miss Gould, and the secession movement. |
| Folder 237 |
Diary and notebook, circa 1862-1893 (V-345/17)384 pages. Ledger book used for many purposes. Apparently it originally belonged to a crewman of the Fanny, a Union vessel captured by the Confederate steamer Raleigh on which Joseph Wilson Alexander served. In addition to the Union crewman's irregular entries of poetry and observations on the war, the book includes drafts of letters and speeches and other items. A significant part of the ledger is devoted to the diary of Nancy Childs Hoke, 4 March 1887-8 January 1893 (pages 215-277). Also apparently in Nancy Childs Hoke's hand are recollections of a conversation between "Cousin Rob" (Confederate General Robert F. Hoke) and her father (John F. Hoke) on 8 February 1885 about the last days of the American Civil War, the postwar political activities of General James Longstreet, the presidential pardon of General Robert F. Hoke, and related matters (pages 79-84). |
| Folder 238 |
Clippings and recipe scrapbook, circa 1860s-1890s (V-345/18)159 pages. Scrapbook containing newspaper clippings and handwritten recipes. Many of the clippings date from the American Civil War though they are interspersed with ones from later. The clippings and recipes cover pages once used for recording financial information and practicing penmanship. |
| Folder 239 |
See SV-345/19 |
| Oversize Volume SV-345/19 |
Scrapbook, 18918 pages. Scrapbook dated 13 March 1891 with newspaper clippings, some of which predate 1891 and most of which relate to politics. |
| Folder 240 |
"Register of the Colored Sunday School, St. Luke's Church, Lincolnton, N.C.," circa 1880-1900 (V-345/20)54 pages. |
| Folder 241 |
Reminiscences about Julia, a nurse formerly enslaved by the Hoke family, circa 1890s (V-345/21)23 pages. Apparently written by Sallie Badger Hoke. Also some lists of colonial officials (pages 17-20), and notes in shorthand (page 23). |
| Folder 242 |
Writings on law, philosophy, church history, and others topics, undated (V-345/22)90 pages. |
| Folder 243 |
"From Bar-Room to Pulpit," undated (V-345/23)29 pages. Printed speech on temperance in pamphlet form. |
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Series 6. Other Papers, 1863-1910.
| Folder 244 |
Clippings, 1863-1910Primarily from North Carolina newspapers, covering legal cases, politics, obituaries, weddings, history, poetry, a speech of United States Secretary of the Interior Hoke Smith (1894), and the electric rail system in Charlotte, N.C. (1910). Also included is one sheet from the Charlotte Daily Bulletin (20 March 1863). |
| Folder 245 |
Recipes for several dishes, undatedFor other recipes, see Volume 14. |
| Folder 246 |
Business cards, 1870-1910Used by William Alexander Hoke, John Franklin Hoke, and others, as well as personal calling cards of Hoke family members and others. |
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Series 7. Photographs, 1890s-1920s.
Includes Albumen prints, tintypes, carte de visites: Bishop Guerry, of South Carolina, taken when chaplain at Sewanee; W.D. Newcome, D.T. Hoover, and M. Hoke in Bismark, N.D.; Herbert Sumner Hoke as an infant, taken by F.M. Winstead, Wilson, N.C., 15 August 1891. There is also a kodak picture of unidentified men, women and children.
Image Folder PF-345/1-2
PF-345/1PF-345/2 |
Photographs |
| Special Format Image SF-P-345/1 |
Photographs |
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